Gasometer



(No Model.)

F. A. SABBATON. GASOM'BTBR.

No. 452,616. Patented May 19, 1891.

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UNITED STATES i PATENT OEEICE.

FREDERICK A. SABBATON, OF TROY, NEVT YORK.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 452,616, dated May 19, 1891. Application led May 27, 1886. Serial No. 203,367. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FREDERICK A. SABBA- TON, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city of Troy, in the county of Rensselaer and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Gasometers for Storing Gases and Hydrocarbon Liquids, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying draw- 1n gs.

My present invention relates to improvements in such apparatus as are commonly used in works for producing and storing large quantities of illu minating-gases for cities and villages; and the general object of my improvement is to provide such gasometers with means for temporarily storing in safety large and various quantities of naphtha, benzine, gasoline, or other hydrocarbon liquids which arel lighter than Water without materially lessening the capacity of the gasometers for storing gases and without exposing the liquid hydrocarbons to the gases in the gasometers.

In the aforesaid drawings, Figure l represents a central vertical section and elevation of a gasometer of a kind in common use in works for producing and storing illuminatinggas and furnished with one form of my invention, and Fig. 2 is a plan of a part ot' the same below the line .a in Fig. l.

Similar parts are marked by like letters in the different figures.,

A is the gasometer-tank containing water B, and C is the gas-holder having its open lower end in and sealed by the water in the tank and mounted so as to move upward and downward as the gas is introduced into and withdrawn fromrthe holder.

D is a pipe or conduit furnished with means, as usualJ for introducing carbureted gas into the gas-holder, and E is a pipe or conduit through which the gas can be withdrawn from the holder; but the gas may be introduced into the gas-holder and withdrawn therefrom through one and the same pipe or conduit D or E when furnished with suitable valves and connections, the same as in some wellknown gas-works.

F is a reservoir for the hydrocarbon liquid, and is closed at its bottom sides and top, is in the tank A and Within the circuit of and cov- To approximately equalize the liquid press-- ure against the inner and outer lateral surfaces of the reservoir F and to keep or retain the hydrocarbon liquid or its upper portion in -the upper part of that reservoir, whether much orlittle or whatever quantity of the hydrocarbon liquid shall be in the reservoir, I furnish the latter with any suitable known passage or passages through which water will freely pass from the outer water-tank A into the lower part of the closed stationary reservoir F, and from the lower part of interior of that reservoir into said water-tank. For this purpose Fig. 1 shows in the lower partof thelateral casing of the reservoir F an aperture or passage d, through which water will freely pass from the tank A into the reservoir F whenever the hydrocarbon liquid is being withdrawn from the reservoir, and the water will pass fromthe reservoir through the opening a into the tank whenever hydrocarbon liquid is being-introduced intothe reservoir, so that thereby the reservoir F is at all times automatically kept,- filled or nearly lled by the Water and the hydrocarbon liquid floating on the water.

By having the passage u. for the water to pass through from the tank A into the reservoir F, and from that reservoir into the tank A, the under surface of the hydrocarbon liquid in the reservoir is exposed to the same body of water to which the under side of the gas in the holder C is exposed.

I is a pipe or conduit open to and extending from the upper part ot' the interior of the closed reservoir F downward and outward below the lowest limit of movement of the gasholder O, and to outside of the gas-holderand water-tank A, so that through the pipo I hydrocarbon liquid can be introduced directly into and withdrawn from the upper part of the interior of said closed reservoir, while the Water can simultaneously pass to and fro through the aforesaid open passage, as a, Fig.

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l, between the lower part ol the interior ol' the reservoir F and the outer tank. Fresh water might be introduced through the pipe I into the upper part of the reservoir F,where upon the water would descend through the hydrocarbon liquid in that reservoir and simultaneously force out an equal quantity of water from the lower part of said reservoir into the surrounding tank. To facilitate the introduction of hydrocarbon liquid into the upper part ol' the chamber F and the withdrawal of the liquid hydrocarbon therefrom through the pipe or conduit I, the latter may be furnished with a pump j", elevated funnel g, and stopvalves 7L and yL'.

To provide means for approximately ascertaining at any time the quantity and position of the hydrocarbon liquid G and of the surface of the water II in the reservoir, I have two, three, or more pipes, as I I I2, extending from outside the gasometer into the reservoir, with their inner ends iixed at certain different heights in the reservoir, as indicated in Fig. l, and furnish each pipe with a stop-valve, as 'L' t" 2, and with a connection with one pump f, as in Fig. 2, so that thereby whatever liquid or fluid in the reservoir F shall cover the open end of any one of those pipes can be drawn out through that pipe by the pump connected therewith.

Byhaving the closed stationary reservoir F in the water in thetank A and within the circuit of and covered by the gas-holder C in that tank and furnished with an open passage, as a, Fig. l,for water between said tank and the lower part of the interior of said closed reservoir and with a pipe, as I, extending from the upper part of the interior of said closed reservoir to outside of the said gas-holder and watertank, as above described, the hydrocarbon liquid can be readily introduced into and withdrawn from said closed reservoir, however high or low may be the gas-holder, and the hydrocarbon liquid in said closed reservoir is at all times thoroughly protected from eX- posure to the weather by the gasholder C and the body of water which seals the gasholder and immediately surrounds said reservoir in the tank, and that same body of water extends within said closed reservoir and thereby equalizes the fluid-pressureagainst the opposite outer and inner lateral and top surfaces of said closed reservoir at all times, whether much, little, or no hydrocarbon liquid is in that reservoir, and whether the hydrocarbon liquid is or is not being introduced into or withdrawn therefrom.

I claim as my invention- The combination, with the oute:` tank containing water, the gas-holder sealed by the water in said tank and movable upward and downward therein, and means for introducing gas into and discharging it from said gas-holder, of the stationary closed reservoir for hydrocarbon liquid immediately surrounded by the water in said tank and within the circuit of and covered by said gas-holder, and having an open passage for water between said outer tank and the lower part of the interior of said stationary closed reservoir, and a conduit for hydrocarbon liquid extending from the upper part ot the interior of said stationary closed reservoir to outside of the said gasholder and outer tank, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses, this 27th day ot' May, lSSG.

FREDERICK A. SABBATON.

Witnesses:

GEORGE G. COX, AUSTIN F. PARK. 

